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May 05, 2004
Even More Housekeeping.
I've added Reinder Dijkhuis and Eric Millikin to my list of buddies over there on the left, because they're both cooler than I am and I suspect I might snatch a little reflected glory merely by being associated with them. Blargh.
Eric does Fetus X for Serializer, and publishes a blog John Ashcroft does not approve of at FetusX.com. He was also the editor of the Modern Tales yearbook, which Sparkneedle was featured in, and I've gotta say he did a beautiful job. Reinder does Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan for Modern Tales, and he had me giggling like a defective at a goofy Sparkneedle reference in a semi-recent strip. Plus, he's a nice guy, and his comic's a joy to follow. So on the list he goes. Read his blog, already.
And I'm sure you're all just positively clamoring for the photographs I took while mummifying my recently deceased rat, Beavis. I won't be putting them in a blog entry, unfortunately; A lot of people click through to me from their Livejournals, and they go directly to the full entry, not the front page. As a result, putting anything behind a cut as an extended entry in an attempt to spare delicate dispositions would be pretty useless. I don't want anyone smacked full in the face with glorious, full-color shots of disembodied rat organs an' crap unless they specifically ask for it, so I'm putting together a seperate page. Whoopie.
I will say this, though: Weird as it was, I'm glad I did it. I think I understand now how ritual and closure go together in a situation like this. I've said goodbye to Beavis in a way a thousand times more thorough than most anyone says goodbye to anything when it dies. I'm not denying that most of you will probably regard mummifying a pet rat as pretty damn warped, but by the time I was done, it felt a lot more affectionate than grotesque.
Or maybe I've been watching too much Six Feet Under. Who knows.
Posted by Spike at May 5, 2004 11:50 PM
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